Senior Database Engineer - Oracle
About the job
Job Description
- 5+ years of experience with Oracle, Oracle RAC, and Oracle Exadata
- Fundamental understanding of Oracle database internals
- Experience working in Agile software development
- Experience with source control management tools (Git, GitLab, GitHub)
- Intermediate to advanced level of expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go
- General understanding and experience with Linux operating system, network, and containers
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure
- Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation
- Experience operating within a database reliability engineering (DRE) and/or systems reliability engineering (SRE) role
- Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production systems in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and/or Amazon Web Services
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience building a proper path to production leveraging multiple lifecycles, testing, integration, and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef)
Job Summary:
Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.
A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
- Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
- Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
- Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.
Engineering Services designs, builds, and sustains technology that powers DE&E Technology’s worldwide content production and distribution platforms. In doing so, they contribute to a series of cross-functional services and technologies, including Quality Assurance, Data Analytics, Software Development, Broadcast Infrastructure, and Networking & Security.
Job Summary:
The individual in this position will join the Data Stores team in an exciting and fast-paced environment where they will help build and maintain highly available relational database systems operating across multiple cloud and on-premise environments. These databases support many of the systems powering DE&ET’s digital media supply chain and consumer facing products.
We’re looking for an individual who can apply software engineering principles to database engineering and administration to build processes and automation to help deliver infrastructure faster, safer, more consistently, and with the right level of observability required to operate at scale.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
- Responsible for building, deploying, and ensuring all DE&ET database infrastructure is available 24/7/365.
- Leverage software development and automation to design, modernize, and deliver database infrastructure.
- Participates in setting the architectural direction for database platforms and projects.
- Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
- Analyze, design, and deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
- Proactively plan and implement infrastructure changes through capacity forecasting, software release cycles, and right sizing.
- Provide database expertise through performance tuning, troubleshooting and administration.
- Develop, enhance, and adhere to engineering and administration standards.
- Develop automation and tooling to increase operational efficiency while ensuring system reliability and security.
- Build infrastructure and systems for scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery though infrastructure as code and configuration management.
- Provide relevant insights of data store infrastructure through metrics, monitoring, and alerting.
- Maintain thorough and well-written documentation.
- Participate in live event support and on-call rotation.
- May provide oversight and direction to junior team members.
- Builds relationships with engineering teams and leads.
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of related work experience with Oracle, Oracle RAC, and Oracle Exadata.
- Fundamental understanding of Oracle database internals.
- Experience working in Agile software development.
- Experience with source control management tools (Git, GitLab, GitHub).
- Intermediate to advanced level of expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
- General understanding and experience with Linux operating system, network, and containers.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
- Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation.
- Carries out assignments with little coaching or guidance from others.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience operating within a database reliability engineering (DRE) and/or systems reliability engineering (SRE) role.
- Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production systems in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and/or Amazon Web Services.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Experience building a proper path to production leveraging multiple lifecycles, testing, integration, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef).
Required Education
- Bachelor’s in computer science or related field and 5 + years relevant experience.
About The Company
From classic animated features and exhilarating theme park attractions to cutting edge sports coverage, and the hottest shows on television, The Walt Disney Company has been making magic since 1923, creating unforgettable stories that connect with audiences around the world. And we’re just getting started!
The key to our success…. The Cast, Crew, Imagineers and Employees who honor Disney’s rich legacy by stretching the bounds of imagination to create the never-before-seen, bringing unparalleled entertainment experiences to people of all ages. Begin a career that delivers unparalleled creative content and experiences to audiences around the world and just imagine the stories you could be part of…
What is #LifeAtDisney like? It’s a series of magical moments with cast members and employees developing and telling our stories in the most innovative ways. Whether it’s a day spent as a Disney VoluntEAR, or celebrating the release of a new interactive experience, retail product or movie, our days are filled with the knowledge that we are creating entertainment experiences the whole family can enjoy. Follow @DisneyCareers on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for a peek behind-the-curtain, and discover how you could connect to a world of stories with Disney!
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